लात मार

Laat Maar (लात मार) is the soundtrack's dedicated sports-motivation number from Jhund (2022), Nagraj Manjule's Hindi directorial debut starring Amitabh Bachchan as a coach who turns slum children into a football team. Composed by Ajay-Atul with lyrics by Amitabh Bhattacharya, the song pairs playback singer Sid Sriram's melodic, vulnerable vocal with rapper Sourabh Abhyankar's raw verses — a contrast credited on several official listings under the rap alias '100 RBH.' Released by T-Series in the run-up to the film's 4 March 2022 theatrical release, Laat Maar is built directly around a football metaphor — urging someone dismissed as 'bhangaar' (junk) by the world to recognise the 'angaar' (ember) still burning inside them and 'kick' back against being underestimated, giving the film's underdog sports narrative its most on-the-nose musical statement.

Ajay-Atul pair a melodic, emotionally rounded lead vocal from Sid Sriram — known for his work across Tamil, Telugu, and Hindi cinema — against Sourabh Abhyankar's grittier rap interjections, creating a two-register contrast within a single track: sung verses of encouragement giving way to punchier, spoken-word bursts. The arrangement keeps the propulsive, percussion-forward energy consistent with the rest of the Jhund soundtrack while allowing space for the rap sections to breathe, a structure suited to underscoring a training-montage or motivational sequence in the film.

Amitabh Bhattacharya builds the lyric on a single sustained metaphor — the world sees you as 'bhangaar' (scrap, junk), but somewhere in your chest there's still an 'angaar' (ember) — before the title phrase 'laat maar' (kick) turns that inner fire into literal action, doubling as both a football instruction and a broader call to fight back against being underestimated. It's a lean, direct lyric built for a montage rather than for close reading — functional motivational writing rather than poetic ornamentation, matching the song's role in the film.

Laat Maar underscores the training and transformation arc at the heart of Jhund (2022), as Vijay Borade (Amitabh Bachchan), a soon-to-retire sports teacher, moulds a group of slum-dwelling youngsters — dismissed by the world around them — into a disciplined football team capable of representing India abroad. The song's central image of turning society's 'junk' into a burning fighting spirit maps directly onto that narrative of underestimated players finding self-belief through the sport. Released by T-Series as part of the film's pre-release music rollout in early 2022, ahead of the 4 March theatrical release, it functioned as the soundtrack's explicit sports-motivation entry alongside the more scene-setting anthems 'Aaya Ye Jhund Hai' and 'Lafda Zala.'

Laat Maar's official T-Series 'Song' upload has drawn over 1.2 million YouTube views, with a separate 'Full Video' cut adding several hundred thousand more — modest numbers relative to the soundtrack's lead single but consistent with its role as a mid-film motivational track rather than a marquee release. The song is notable chiefly for its Sid Sriram–Sourabh Abhyankar pairing, an unusual combination of a South Indian playback melody specialist with a Hindi rap artist, within a Marathi-cinema-rooted composing team's Hindi debut soundtrack.